Not sure I'd put much stock in anything Serk says at this point.
Tuesday night, the Internet from Texarkana went to hell. I ran a trace rout to google to see if I could get an idea where the problem might be. The first route below is what it should look like.

Notice that at hop 7, we are going through Dallas.
However, Tuesday night and most of Wednesday I get this when I ran a trace route:

Notice hop 7 now. Going through Kansas City which bottle necked the hell out of everything down here. Now one just wonders what the heck was going on in Dallas that required rerouting of a national backbone. And now that it's supposedly backup, have there been any changes made? I mean if somebody wanted to ....
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NEVER MIND CITIZEN.
I WAS IN ERROR.
EVERYTHING IS IN ORDER.
YOU MAY NOW PROCEED WITH YOUR NORMAL ACTIVITIES.